Re: Random mandolin sightings
Originally Posted by
journeybear
Oh, I think right here is just fine! Pretty, dang random, I'd say!
You might consider Videos, Pictures & Sound Files, also. But yeah, I don't see a main heading dedicated to vintage photos. Surely there are threads in there.
Since it was a bus tour, that might actually be the bus steps he's sitting on. Old buses were often built that way. The blunt nose design came later, IIRC. Is that a separate photograph next to the player and his friend, or are those people listening? Or perhaps singing along?
Thanks. The bus tour that the article was about was in September of 2019, when students visited a museums and historical sites related to the Underground Railway and the settlement of black refugees in Ontario. (By the way, many free African-Americans came to Canada after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in the USA, which allowed slavers to capture people who'd escaped from slavery and return them to the South; many free people were afraid of being kidnapped and sold into slavery, as happened to Solomon Northup, who wrote in the book, Twelve Years A Slave, and fled from the American north to Canada) So the vehicle in the picture wasn't the bus referred to, though the photo may show a bus. The two people seem to be sitting on wooden stairs that aren't necessarily designed for the vehicle. Or perhaps someone made them so Grandma wouldn't have to stretch her legs when she climbed in. The photo of the young women is a separate one. In that photo, to the left, the clothes and hairstyles seem to be from the 1920's -- unless this is a contemporary retro look developed by Humber's Fashion students. The photo below seems to show farm workers standing by a steam tractor. I assume that these are museum photos, seen during the tour.
Last edited by Ranald; Jan-27-2021 at 2:33pm.
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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